About

Hi, I’m Malcolm Dow, and this website is about The Roaring Mouse, my small website design, construction, hosting and promotion, print, online and video publishing, and counselling business.

I live in Williamstown, Victoria, Australia, where my wife Diana and I are pastors of Williamstown Baptist Church and directors of the Beth Tephillah Ministry Centre and the Beth Tephillah Simple Church Network. I also run The Roaring Mouse, a small business specialising in website design, construction and hosting, video, print and Internet publishing, electronic research and construction, and lifestyle consultation and counselling. The name is inspired by Leonard Wibberly’s book and the wonderful Peter Sellers’ film The Mouse that Roared. The emphasis of the story, and my business, is power to the little guy. My main focus is on enabling Christians and the church to use the Internet more effectively.

My first job was as a design draftsman with the Commonwealth Department of Civil Aviation – now the Department of Transport and Regional Services, where I helped to build and commission Tullamarine Airport and worked on projects such as the Autophon Information System and the Interscan Automatic Landing System.

After 13 years of this I went to Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Division of Manufacturing Technology as a technical officer, doing research into robotics and vision systems. This is now CSIRO Complex Systems Integration (CCSI). I was part of the small team that developed Australia’s first flexible manufacturing cell – integrating several industrial robots, a CNC milling machine and an Automatix vision processing system into a cell capable of multi tasking and rapid changeover of jobs, I also worked on the Bionic Ear Project and a camera and vision system for the Australia Telescope.

Next I became a lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Technology at Victoria University, teaching computer programming, microprocessor technology, computer aided design and artificial intelligence. My research specialisation was in artificial intelligence, expert systems, robotics and speech recognition systems.

In 1997 I left the university, and my wife Diana and I became pastors of Williamstown Baptist Church and directors of the Beth Tephillah Ministry Centre, while I started Roaring-Mouse.com.